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| We took a trip up to Montgomery Redwoods for CGLHS convention field trip |
One of Grace Hudson’s drawings with several preliminary sketches was on display at the Grace Hudson Museum in Ukiah. They were for an Overland Monthly article during Milicent’s editorship - August & September 1892 “Staging in the Mendocino Redwoods part 1 & II”.
It was quite a good read, describing the town of Ukiah, Anderson Valley, the Navarro Lumber Mill, along the coast. Descriptions of the mills, stage coaches, bars.
Photos were by Grace Hudson’s father (O. Carpenter, simplified from A.O. Carpenter?)
The Navarro Mill figured heavily in Shinn family history. Lucy Shinn's niece, Lue Tichenor, married into a lumber family.
Not wonderful thinking about how decimated the trees were/are nor how Cousin Lue went from rich to poor but it is our history, like it or not.
The author, maybe you know her, Netta/Ninetta Eames was quite a colorful character, later the mother-in-law of Jack London and also the editor of the Overland Monthly (after Milicent).
One of Charles' first publications (that I could find) was a trip to Navarro in 1874 in the Overland Monthly before Milicent was editor.
Some nice tying-up of histories.
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